300 



NOCTTTID^. 



costal area stronglj- irrorated with brown and with a distinct 

 discoidal point. 



Hah. Iceland, 1 c? , 6 $ , Grote & Zeller Colls. ; Russia, Livonia, 

 L'rals ; Mongolia, Uliassutai Mts., 2 c? , 2 $ , Changai Mts. ; N. Si- 

 beria, Shigansk, 1 c?; Amitrland ; Kashmir, Kuijar {McArihur\ 

 1 6 , Nubra (McArtJmr), 1 c? , 1 $ . Exjy. 36-38 millim. 



534. Euxoa henrietta. (Plate LXYI. fig. 16.) 



Carneades henrietta, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxii. p. 452 (1900). 

 Agrotis obelisca, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Aiii., Het. i. p. 263, part (nee SchifF.). 



Head and thorax pale ochreous brown mixed with dark brown ; 

 frons with lateral black bars ; teguloe whitish at base and with 

 black medial line ; abdomen ochreous white, with pale brownish 

 dorsal bands. Fore wing brownish grej- ; the costal area pale, 

 extending into cell at base ; the cell and area beyond it to post- 

 medial line and below it to vein 1 suffused with brown ; a blackish 

 patch below base of cell ; the subbasal and antemedial lines repre- 

 sented by black points on costa, the latter excnrved below^ cell and 

 very strongly above inner margin, defined by grey on inner side ; 

 claviform moderate, defined by black ; orbicular and reniform with 

 brownish centres and whitish annuli defined by black, the former 

 oblique, elliptical, open above, the cell before and between them 

 sufl^used with black ; the postmedial line dentate, bent outwards 

 below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique, the area beyond it 

 grey to the subterminal line, which arises from termen just below 

 apex, is angled inwards in discal fold, excurved at middle, then 

 incurved ; the interspaces of terminal area streaked with black. 

 Hind wing white, ver}' slightly tinged with brown ; the underside 

 with the costal area irrorated with brown, a slight discoidal bar 

 and dark terminal line. 



Hah. U.S.A., California, Mendocino, 1 S , Alameda Co., St. Cruz, 

 Arizona, Senator ; Mexico, Las Yegas (Hoee/e), 1 d , 1 $ ; Costa 

 EiCA, Irazu (Rogers), 1 $ , Godmau-Salvin Coll. Exj). 36 millim. 



Larva. Dyai-, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxii. p. 453 (1900). 



Head bilobed, broad ; clypeus broadly triangular, rather high, 

 pale brown, speckled with darker over the sides and at the top of 

 each lobe ; labrum pale, ocelli in a brown patch ; width 3"5 mm. 

 Body robust; feet normal, short; tubercle iv. of somites 9 and 10 at 

 the upper corner of spiracle. Skin thin, translucent whitish, the 

 dorsum faintly shaded with reddish. Cervical shield distinct, 

 brown, with brown impressed strigce, cut by three white bands ; 

 anal plate obscure, brown-dotted ; spiracles black, tubercles brown, 

 obscure. Said to feed on the roots of various jnants. — H. G, D. 



535. Euxoa atrifera. (I'late LXYI. fig. 17.) 



Affrot is atr/fera, Grote, Bull. Geol. Surv. iv. p. 173(1878); Smith, Cat. 

 Noct. N. Am. p. 107. 



Head and thorax pale reddish brown, the scales tipped with grey ; 



